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MONUMENT NO. 248004

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Roman temple excavated in 1847 at Castle Acre, Chruch Farm. Finds recovered included pottery, brick and coins. The coins included Iron Age and Greek coins but were mainly Roman of the 3rd to 4th century. A re-examination of the site in 1953 identified part of the temenos. The layout of the building has also been identified from aerial photographs. Finds are in Downing College Museum, Cambridge and Reading Museum.

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[SU 8215 7778] Roman Temple [G.S.] (site of) [T.I.]. (1)

An octangonal Roman temple was excavated in 1847 by R. Neville, in
an area known as Castle Acre, in Weycock Hill Field, Church Farm.
The finds include two or three Constantinian coins, pottery, brick
and tile.
Earlier finds from Weycock Hill include coins of the whole Roman
period with a preponderance of later 3rd and 4th Cent. types.
Two coins attributed to Weycock Hill, but now lost, are a Greek coin
of Amyntas III (Macedonian) and an uninscribed I.A. speculum coin
comparable to Evans type H.2 or perhaps Mack 9 in his Class I series.
The site was reexamined in 1953 over a limited area because of crops.
A well-mortared and plaster faced wall was revealed [at SU 8220 7775]
most probably that of the temenos. A flint cobbled area overlying R.B. occupation was also excavated to the east of the temple. (2)
Octagonal building and traces of temenos visible on oblique APs.
[Plotted on 1/2500 plan, Archive No.2052 by W.T. Millar]. Siting
agrees with authority (1) [See adjacent sites suggesting a
settlement]. (3)

Finds from this site are in the Downing College Museum, Cambridge.

A few sherds of Roman pottery and a flint flake are in Reading Museum
Acc. No. 177: 53 (Ex. Maidenhead Museum). (4)

No remains of this temple are visible on the ground which, under the
plough, was snow covered at the time of investigation. (5)

Additional bibliography. (6,7)

Additional bibliography - not consulted. (8,9)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1960

( 2) Berkshire Archaeological Society The Berkshire archaeological journal

(M.A. Cotton) 55, 1956-57 Page(s)48-68

( 3) Aerial photograph

S.K. Jopp [Obliques]

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 EG 10-JAN-63

( 4a) Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments

( 4b) Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

F2 NVQ 15-JAN-63

( 6) edited by Warwick Rodwell and Trevor Rowley 1975 The "small towns" of Roman Britain : papers presented to a conference, Oxford 1975

British Archaeological Report (BAR) British series1 (1974) - 15 Page(s)13

( 7) by Miranda Green 1976 A corpus of religious material from the civilian areas of Roman Britain

British Archaeological Report (BAR) British series1 (1974) - 24 Page(s)197

( 8) General reference

Roman Britain From the Air 1983 221-2 photo (Frere & St Joseph)

( 9) Aerial archaeology : the journal for air photography and archaeology

4, 1979 Page(s)82-84

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